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If you can accept the flow of life and give in to it, you will be accepting
what is real. Only when you accept what is real can you live with it in
peace and happiness. The alternative is a struggle that will never end
because it is a struggle with the unreal, with a mirage
of life instead of life itself.
Deepak Chopra0 -
Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do. -Annie Dillard
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The powerful potential behind change lies in the possibility that each
new beginning will bring us greater joy and freedom than we have ever
known. Whether or not that actually happens--whether or not we
continue to grow through the cycles of our lives--is largely up to us.
We play a part in what happens by choosing how we see our changes,
our beginnings, our endings. We can see each ending as a tragedy and
lament and resist it, or we can see each ending as a new beginning and
a new birth into greater opportunities. What the caterpillar sees as the
tragedy of death, the butterfly sees as the miracle of birth.
John Marks Templeton
Worldwide Laws of Life0 -
In the face of circumstances that drive others to madness, awakened people
have a kind of calmness and serenity inside them. They’re in charge of how
they react. They’re not calculating, they’re not cold, they’re not emotionless
people—they simply know how not to make negative assessments of the
world and what’s in it. They practice having healthy reactions to whatever
happens, rather than practicing ego-driven behavior.
Wayne Dyer
Happiness Is the Way0 -
The feeling that "I am enough" does not mean that I have nothing to learn,
nothing further to achieve, and nowhere to grow to. It means that I accept
myself, that I am not on trial in my own eyes, that I value and respect
myself. This is not an act of indulgence but of courage.
Nathaniel BrandenSelf-Esteem Every Day0 -
A bag of apples, a pot of homemade jam, a scribbled note, a bunch of golden flowers, a coloured pebble, a box of seedlings, an empty scent bottle for the children. . . . Who needs diamonds and van-delivered bouquets? -Pam Brown
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Yesterday is experience. Tomorrow is hope. Today is getting one to another as best we can. John M. Henry.
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What a desolate place would be a world without flowers. It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth? And are not our stars the flowers of heaven?
Clara Balfour0 -
We are all flowers in the Great Spirit's garden. We share a common root, and the root is Mother Earth. The garden is beautiful because it has different colors in it, and those colors represent different traditions and cultural backgrounds.
Grandfather David Monongye (Hopi)
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Do not compare yourself with others, for you are
a unique and wonderful creation.
Make your own beautiful footprints in the snow.
Barbara Kimball0 -
Throughout our lives, the moment we bring our awareness fully into
the Now, we enter the domain of the true self, and our immediate
conscious reality is once again that of sensation and perception. As
I sit in the park, the sunlight brightens the leaves and casts shadows
on the ground. I have a feeling of contentment. And as long as “I”
don’t create stories about what I am seeing or about the fact that I
am feeling content, which leads me away from my immediate experience,
what I experience remains simply perception and sensation. The same is
true for any feeling, any emotion. In the Now, it is just what it is. In the
Now, I “go back” to my original awareness “by the way that [I] have
come.” When we directly perceive and experience whatever is present
in our larger fields of awareness, it is possible to have a relationship with
it without becoming lost in it or defined by it.
Richard Moss
The Mandala of Being0 -
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
Zen
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Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try
to love the questions themselves. . . . Don’t search for the answers, which
could not be given to you now, because you would not be able
to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions
now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually,
without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke0 -
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got
where they are had to begin where they were.
Richard L. Evans0 -
The little troubles and worries of life, so many of which we meet,
may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them
stepping-stones to a noble character and to Heaven. Troubles
are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
Henry Ward Beecher0 -
Whether it’s Mother Teresa’s acts of charity, Gandhi’s perseverance,
or your aunt Betty’s calm demeanor, as long as you’re motivated to be
better today than you were yesterday, it doesn’t matter who inspires you.
Timber Hawkeye
Buddhist Boot Camp0 -
What we are talking about is learning to live in the present moment,
in the now. When you aren't distracted by your own negative thinking,
when you don't allow yourself to get lost in moments that are gone or
yet to come, you are left with this moment. This moment--now--truly is
the only moment you have. It is beautiful and special. Life is simply a
series of such moments to be experienced one right after another. If
you attend to the moment you are in and stay connected to your soul and
remain happy, you will find that your heart is filled with positive feelings.
Sydney Banks0 -
Life is made up not necessarily of great sacrifices or high-level duties
but of little things. The smiles, the kindnesses, the commitments and
obligations and responsibilities that are given habitually and lovingly
are the blessings that win and preserve the heart and bring comfort
to one's self as we as to others. This is the ministry
of service performed by every useful life.
John Marks Templeton
Worldwide Laws of Life0 -
If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition.
All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.
Barbara Cook0 -
All the kindness which a person puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of humankind.
Albert Schweitzer
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Be on the lookout for mercies. The more we look for them,
the more of them we will see. . . . Better to lose count
while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings
to counting your troubles.
Maltbie D. Babcock0 -
If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature’s greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal. -Catherine Ponder
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Your worth is not measured by what you do. Nor can you calculate the degree of your worthiness by what you possess. Your worth is a function of your being. Your being is colorless, genderless, and believe it or not, ageless. Your being is worthy of honor, admiration, and respect. It is a vessel of love and light. It is a beacon of inspiration. -Iyanla Vanzant
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We are all citizens of one world, we are all of one blood.
To hate people because they were born in another country,
because they speak a different language, or because they
take a different view on this subject or that, is a great folly.
Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human. . . .
Let us have but one end in view: the welfare of humanity.
Johann Amos Comenius0 -
All beliefs are temporary and ultimately evolve to something different.
There will come a time when everything you now believe will not be
true for you. As much as you are sure you know how it is, one day
you will change your mind about how it is. Never argue that your way
is the only way or the right way. One day you will be proven wrong,
even to yourself. That day will be joyful because you
will leave a smaller room to enter a greater one.
Alan Cohen
The Tao Made Easy0 -
The longer you live the more you realize that forgiveness,
consideration, and kindness are three of the great secrets of life.
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I nurture a faithful heart. When difficulties, sorrows, and trials beset
me, I consciously choose faith in the face of despair. Like the mountain
climber who reaches the summit a step at a time, I hold an ideal in my
heart. Despite the temptation to bitterness, despite the seduction of
rage, I choose a path of temperate endurance, grounding my daily life
in the small joys yet available to me. Learning from the material world,
I harbor the seeds of hope against the long winter. I count the small
stirrings of beauty and delight still present in a barren time. My heart
is a seasoned traveler. Moving through hostile and unfamiliar terrain
it remains alert to encounter unexpected beauty blossoming despite
the odds. In the arms of adversity, I yet find the comfort of tenderness
to myself and others. I refuse to harbor a hardened heart.
Decisively and deliberately, I expand rather than contract.
Julia Cameron
Transitions: Prayers and
Declarations for a Changing Life0 -
To find something you can enjoy is far better than finding something you can possess.Glen Holm0 -
If things are tough, remember that every flower had to go through a whole lot
of dirt to get there. So do not grieve about a bitter experience. The present
is slipping by while you are regretting the past and worrying about the future.
Regret will not prevent tomorrow’s sorrows; it will only rob today of its strength.
Barbara Johnson0
